Micah Rood's Apples

Apples with a spot of red (like blood) in the heart. Micah Rood
was a prosperous farmer at Franklin. In 1693 a pedlar with jewellery
called at his house, and next day was found murdered under an
apple-tree in Rood's orchard. The crime was never brought home to the
farmer, but next autumn all the apples of the fatal tree bore inside a
red blood-spot, called “Micah Rood's Curse,” and the farmer died soon
afterwards.